KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, November 2, 1981
Vol. 92, No. 51 USPS 650-640
Freedom March
About 200 people marched on the grounds of the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth Saturday to call attention to what they called the "Puerto Rican Prisoners of War" held in the prison. See page 74.
ASK selects new executive director
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
The Associated Students of Kansas board of director in Topeka yesterday chose Mark Tallman, Fort Hays State University student president, as the new ASK executive director.
Tallman is a former ASK campus director at Hays State and has been with ASK for three years.
Tallman will not take over for outgoing executive director Bob Bingamain until January, but Bingamain will leave in the middle of November.
In the meantime, George Gallion, ASK administrative assistant, and Steve Lienberg, ASK campus coordinator, will perform the duties of executive director.
"He'll be going through the training with Bamgamthan this week and maybe next week, said Danny Meehan of BMC."
Zimmerman represented the University of Kansas at the meeting, taking the place of KU's ASK board member, Maria McDougal, who was ill.
Tallman's selection was the culmination of a review and interview process that began last week.
The deadline for applications was last Wednesday, and on the next day a committee of five
ASK members reviewed the 20 applications and narrowed the list to nine individuals to interview.
the board interviewed only eight of those
upstairs, because one did not show
upstairs. Zimmerman said.
Tallman will resign as Fort Hays State's student body president in January and take the executive director's position, which has an annual salary of $11,000.
Tallman was a senior and scheduled to graduate in law, but will postpone his graduation takings.
Tallman has also served as the editor of the student newspaper at Fort Havas State.
His appointment will last until the end of May.
Bingaman resigned as ASK executive director Oct.14
Redistricting plan to be challenged
Staff Reporter
BvSTEVEROBRAHN
A congressional redistricting plan approved last Friday by a Kansas House committee was called a grymmerware yesterday by a municipal委员会 member who had opposed the plan.
"It's just political gerrymandering," said State Rep. James Holderman, D-Wichita. "I told the committee that in light of how mororthod the plan is, and the other options we had, I won't
"It'll be challenged and we'll just turn it over to the federal courts to decide."
The House Legislative, Judicial and Congressional Apportionment Committee voted Friday to recommend the plan, which spits out a new district in the state. Kansas City, Ky., divided into two districts.
THE PLAN was sponsored by State Rep. Neal R. Wichita, R-Wichita, and State Rep. Paul Heas, R-Wichita.
State Rep. Robert Frey, R-Liberal, who was chairman of the committee, said he would submit the committee's reappointment application to the U.S. House (202) 882 Legislative session, which begins in January.
Douglas County would remain in the 3rd district until the less-Whitler proposal and subsequent changes are made.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said she voted against the plan because there were several other proposals that would have been better for the state and thus have been better for the state as a whole.
"I was one of the worst plans," she said. "I wouldn't be surprised to see it challenge in court, but it won't be by anybody from Douglas County because we're OK by it."
She charged that Frey had abused his authority as committee chairman to push the government over.
"On Thursday we were limited to looking at three plans, and on Friday we were limited to discussing one plan—the Hess-Whitaker plan," Charlton said.
"When we got there, Thursday it was clear we were going to approve the Hess-Whittaker plan and we did."
FREY DEFINED the redistricting plan and
said it was well-balanced and reflected the "one man, one vote" principle that was the reason for changing congressional boundary lines every 10 years after the federal census.
4. reflects the wishes of the people we talked to during our hearings around the state last summer". Frey said, "Particularly concerning Douglas County, the plan reflects concerns that were expressed to us to remain in the 3rd district."
Wyandotte County's present division between districts will remain unchanged, he said.
Harpar and Kingman counties in south central Kansas would move from the 4th district to the 3rd district.
Eleven townships in western Sedgwick County also would be included in the enlarged list 150 years later.
"The plan was proposed by Sedgwick County
officials and so "obvious there is not
inappropriate oppression."
Holderman said that the Hess-Whitaker plan would not reduce Democratic strength in the 4th district but that it was proposed as a political alternative to Republican strength over Wavenda County.
"I'm surprised at the Sedgwick County legislators on the reapportionment committee who were willing, for political purposes in the northeast part of the state, to carve up our county not only between two districts like it is now, but between three districts."
HOLDERMAN SAID that the political advantage of the Hess-Whitaker plan was to enhance Republican congressional candidates' chances to win by splitting the predominantly Republican, and outweighing it with more Republican votes elsewhere in the 2nd and 3rd districts.
The reason for dividing Sedgwick County was to maintain the split in Wyandotte County, Hirschfeld said.
A proposal by him and State Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, would split no counties and would come closer than the Hess-Whitaker region to allow populations in each district holdder, Holderman said.
The Steinger-Holderman plan would be used as an alternative redistricting plan if the plan approved by the Legislature this spring is challenged in court, he said.
Rising prices reduce KU library purchases
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Reporter
If the University of Kansas had kept pace with inflation, it would have won the top 10 best libraries in the country.
During a University Senate Library Committee meeting last week, Clinton Howard, head of acquisitions, said that while no single year had been a catastrophe, there had been an annual inflation rate of 15 percent on book prices, but only the percentage increase in the book acquisitions budget.
"By 1885, the library will have lost one-third of its purchasing power," he said.
Both Howard and Richard Ring, collections development librarian, were invited to speak to the committee and explain the problems the library faces.
Howard explained that compared to other universities that KU had once been even with, including Arizona, California, and Virginia. These universities match KU's student population.
He said that by fiscal year 1985, the library would have to cancel 3,000 periodicals and have 14,000 fewer books if inflation continued to rise faster than the library budget.
Howard based these figures on trends since 1971, which showed an increasing gap between the three regions.
KU also is ranked as the third greatest borrower of books from other libraries in the country, but has served as the state's main source of research material. he said.
The library committee had met to decide how to educate and mobilize the KU faculty on the topic.
See ACQUISITION page 5
Benefit delay costs faculty $8,119 a year, report shows
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
The loss of money has occupied the minds of faculty members lately.
At its Friday meeting, the University Senate executive committee discussed reports on issues related to the project.
According to a report compiled by three faculty members, sluggishness in Topoke has caused many faculty members to lose more than $8,000 in retirement benefits.
The retirement fund problem has been nagging the faculty for a while, but the report showed for the first time how much of a problem it is.
"We're not talking about an insignificant amount of money," said Ernest Angert, SenEx chairman. "I hope to get to this on the Regents' agenda. This is not strictly a local issue."
THE LOSS OF money stems from the Division of Accounts and Reports in Topeka. Although faculty members are paid on the first of the month, their retirement fund payments are not transferred to interest-bearing accounts until some time at the end of the month.
Three members of the University Council, David Shulenberger, associate professor of business, Lawrence Sherr, professor of business, and Fred Vanceleck, professor of mathematics, made up a hypothetical faculty member for the report.
The University Council will discuss the report at its Thursday meeting.
For each day the payment is not in the account, the faculty member loses money, the
They made what Lonnie Rose, SenEx member,
called "conservative assumptions" to arrive at
at its Thursday meeting.
- The faculty member earns $30,000 a year.
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The National Weather Service in Topeka forecasts cloudy skies and an 80 percent chance of rain today and tonight. The high today will be in the mid-50s with the low going to about 40, the high going to about 60, and skies will begin to clear.
The long range forecast, Wednesday to Friday is for rain with temperatures below 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Waitresses endure hectic pace, chaos
By JANICE GUNN
Staff Reporter
Customers would start flowing in soon, and Myrtle was the first to arrive. Sweeping by the front cash register into the dining room, she purse and papers assemble onto a table.
There was much to be done.
Other shift workers dashed in one at a time. They had only an hour until the front door was to open. A long night was ahead of them; they were working from 3 p.m. until midnight.
The woman is 50-year-old Myrtle Pfeffer, the managing waitress at Don's Steak House, 2176 E. 23rd St. She works in the waiting room, one shared by more than a million women who set up their stations day and night.
Slipping their belongings into cubbyholes, the other waitresses begin to prepare their tables and themselves for the night. They set up a table with ice cream and sugar—the customers would use plenty.
It was a KU football game night, and students' parents had streamed into Lawrence for the game. Maytie knew the team would packed all night with hungry football fans.
SHE WAS WORKING station four in the dining room, and anticipated a good night's earnings. Station four had one more table football crowds leaves the biggest ones, she said.
Monday Morning
Whether in a small greasy spoon, in a chain
restaurant duplicated from city to city, or in an elegant dining establishment, waitressing is part of the "serving" industry, which is occupied mostly by women. Of table waitresses in the United States in 1979, 884 women in the United States, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.
But for most women, waitingress is only a temporary job used to pay for a college education, to pad a punny paycheck or to sponsor an acting or artistic career that has
For Myrtle, waitress is a full-time,
lifetime job. She has waited since she was
born.
Although waitresses in most restaurants make an hourly wage that is less than the minimum wage of $3,35 they get tips. Waitresses say the tips help to boost their salaries. Some have even quit careers to take jobs again traced after waitresses pay more.
"I'm making more now than I did at a magazine production firm, as a machine operator."
Perkin's, 1711. W 23rd St. She has waited steadily for the last seven years.
Ramelle Lipps, 20, a Cape Girarande Mo., junior, she made more money as a waitress than she could do anything else while going to college.
SHE WAS A WAITNESS at the Massachusetts Street Delicatessen, 941 Massachusetts St., for a year and a half. She now works at Minsky's Pizza, 2224 Iowa St.
"I don't have to work, but I can't pass up this money," she said. "But sometimes it's not that easy. During the rushes, it seems like everyone wants to eat at once."
The doors at Don's opened, 4 p.m. sharp,
and Myrtle had customers waiting for her attention.
Keeping one step ahead of herself, she ran from table to table. She watched over her shoulder for new customers, making mental connections. In minutes, she was engrossed in her work.
Smiling, Myrtle broke the circle of conversation at a table to put glasses of water in her hands.
To keep her customers happy, she used her basic rule of waitressing "Get something, get the customer to do it."
Enos also said that she wanted every customer to like they had her attention.
Pigey Howe, 21. Mulvane junior and a waitress at Nabil's, 9th and 10th streets, said that she and her coworkers had a philosophy about how far they would go to get a good tip.
"If you can get away with it, do it," she said. "If it works, do it again and again."
DON'S WAS PACKED and the waitresses hastened to a faster pace. In the kitchen, out of the customers' sight, Myrtle slapped water of water, four at a time, into her hands.
Retrieving beer from the icebox and grabbing steak platters all at once, Myrtie
Next, he grabbed salads, dressing, Cokes, tea, coffee—the customer's requests were made.
darted left and then right, sometimes bumping into other waitresses.
But once she reached the dining room, she transformed into a smooth, unfluffed pro.
Although granted to them by the law, most waitresses do not take breaks during a shift in a busy restaurant. They say if they take a break, it is often because of their tips. Moreover, their rhythm is broken.
Waitresses complain that they are often not treated fairly or justly by their customers. People are cold and forget that waitresses are human. Lipos said.
"Sometimes customers ask me to bring them so many things I just want to take my tray and beat them in the face!" Lipps said. "It's fortunate that I have that tray to hold—sometimes my knuckles turn so white when I'm mad that I have to clutch the rim of it."
ENOS ESTIMATED that about 40 percent of her customers did not act as if they respected her when she served them. Of the customers who did respect her, she said she remembered their best behavior and remarks they made about her being a "dense waitress."
Don's rush had died down a bit. Myrtle concentrated on giving her customers extra care.
Taking an order, she scribbled on her
taking a fork. I 1 fish sand, 1
b. c sand, 3 Fr dress, and 4 roll.
Translated from a waitress 'shortband, that's a rib eye steak, rare; a top sirion steak, medium rare; a fish sandwich, a roast burger; a beef lamb roast topped with French dressing and four rolls.
Waitresses agree that their cheerfulness is sometimes phony. Mydre said it blew her heart. "You're like a fool."
In a sense, customers are entertained by a cheerful waitress. Some customers, however,
Michelle, 21, a Prairie Village senior,
waited at a resort last summer and had to
put up with her men's sexual passes. She has
requested that her last name not be used.
"A lot of men made passes at me and asked me to come down to their room after I got off my taxi."
"After all the time I spent serving them, I didn't want to lose the tip—that would have been a waste—so, instead of giving them a compliment, I'd just shy-washy and never gave a definite answer."
MYRTLE SAID she was never hired by some restaurants because they wanted girls with thin, slick figures, and she "never had one of those."
Most waitresses in Lawrence said they had suffered some sexual harassment on the job, but they had done nothing to counter it.
According to several studies about women in the labor force, waitresses rarely file
for force, waitresses throw
See WAITRESS page 5